The 7th Annual Linares Super Tournament held from February 18th to March 5th, 1989 was a category XVI event. Eleven grandmasters competed in a round robin format. The participants were (in order of ELO): Anatoli Karpov (2750), Nigel Short (2650), Alexander Beliavsky (2640), Vassily Ivanchuk (2635), Johann Bjarni Hjartarson (2615), Boris Gulko (2610), Lajos Portisch (2610), Jan Timman (2610), Artur Yusupov (2610), Andrei Sokolov (2605), and Ljubomir Ljubojevic (2580). Twenty year old Ivanchuk dazzled at his Linares debut with a clear first place ahead of former world champion Karpov. The final standings and crosstable are as follows:

01 Ivanchuk 7.5/10 * = = 1 1 = 1 = 1 = 1

02 Karpov 7/10 = * 1 = 0 1 1 1 = = 1

03 Ljubojevic 6/10 = 0 * = 0 = 1 1 = 1 1

04 Timman 5.5/10 0 = = * = = = = = 1 1

05 Short 5.5/10 0 1 1 = * 0 = = = = 1

06 Yusupov 5/10 = 0 = = 1 * 0 = 1 = =

07 Beliavsky 4.5/10 0 0 0 = = 1 * 1 = 1 0

08 Portisch 4/10 = 0 0 = = = 0 * = = 1

09 Sokolov 3.5/10 0 = = = = 0 = = * = 0

10 Gulko 3.5/10 = = 0 0 = = 0 = = * =

11 Hjartarson 3/10 0 0 0 0 0 = 1 0 1 = *

*This collection could not have been completed without nescio, to whom I am eternally grateful.